Such code still won't work on 3.2, hence restoring the redundant notation would be ultimately pointless.
-- Nick Coghlan (via Gmail on Android, so likely to be more terse than usual) On Dec 8, 2011 4:34 PM, "Chris McDonough" <chr...@plope.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 01:18 -0500, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > 2011/12/8 Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com>: > > > On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 01:02 -0500, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > >> 2011/12/8 Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com>: > > >> > On the heels of Armin's blog post about the troubles of making the > same > > >> > codebase run on both Python 2 and Python 3, I have a concrete > > >> > suggestion. > > >> > > > >> > It would help a lot for code that straddles both Py2 and Py3 to be > able > > >> > to make use of u'' literals. > > >> > > >> Helpful or not helpful, I think that ship has sailed. The earliest it > > >> could see the light of day is 3.3, which would leave people trying to > > >> support 3.1 and 3.2 in a bind. > > > > > > Right.. the title does say "readd ... support in 3.3". Are you > > > suggesting "the ship has sailed" for eternity because it can't be > > > supported in Python < 3.3? > > > > I'm questioning the real utility of it. > > All I can really offer is my own experience here based on writing code > that needs to straddle Python 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2 without use of 2to3. > Having u'' work across all of these would mean porting would not require > as much eyeballing as code modified via "from future import > unicode_literals", it would let more code work on 2.5 unchanged, and the > resulting code would execute faster than code that required us to use a > u() function. > > What's the case against? > > - C > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ncoghlan%40gmail.com >
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